“And Mother taught us patience
The virtues of restraint
And Father taught us boundaries
Beyond which we must go
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To find the secrets promised us, yeah”
This verse is an example of conflicting advice, cognitive dissonance. Kinda crazy-making if you ask me, purposely confusing.
Overall what I get from the song is, There’s no Objective Good, there’s no god (“Tonight the sky is empty”), and it’s always been this way (“but that is nothing new”). The individual is what matters anyway, not groupthink, not “common goals” (possible brainwashing) or at least they’re nothing to apply any real, psychological importance to (“but all of that is changed now, they’ve turned things inside out”).
Final comment: The line that comes after the one I quoted above regarding the sky’s “dead eyes”, which goes “they tell me we’re nothing but slaves” - There’s no real “forever” to be bothered with, just the “here and now”. “Forever” was invented by despicable people in order to corral disparate humans into becoming sheep.
“And Mother taught us patience The virtues of restraint And Father taught us boundaries Beyond which we must go ———————- To find the secrets promised us, yeah”
This verse is an example of conflicting advice, cognitive dissonance. Kinda crazy-making if you ask me, purposely confusing.
Overall what I get from the song is, There’s no Objective Good, there’s no god (“Tonight the sky is empty”), and it’s always been this way (“but that is nothing new”). The individual is what matters anyway, not groupthink, not “common goals” (possible brainwashing) or at least they’re nothing to apply any real, psychological importance to (“but all of that is changed now, they’ve turned things inside out”). Final comment: The line that comes after the one I quoted above regarding the sky’s “dead eyes”, which goes “they tell me we’re nothing but slaves” - There’s no real “forever” to be bothered with, just the “here and now”. “Forever” was invented by despicable people in order to corral disparate humans into becoming sheep.